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Garth Battista
Halcottsville NY (Catskill Mountains)
Halcottsville NY (Catskill Mountains)
08/13/2020
03:10 am
03:10 am
Equipment Details:
Sony a6000 with astro spectrum modification
Sigma DC DN 16mm lens
ISO 400, f/1.6, 45 seconds, single frame, tracked by Sky Watcher Star Adventurer
Post-processing Details:
Cropped, with brightness and saturation adjustments in LightRoom
Image Details:
A Perseid meteor explodes over the Catskill Mountains. We've had so much rain and cloud cover lately that I despaired of seeing a single Perseid. But one second of blazing space rock made up for all that.